Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-25
DAAOTa UUNDENSATTONs
Brooklngs county harvesters are ont Of

Ek1p. AVlA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Brooklngs county harvesters are ont OF
Irvine.
Hyde county's corn crop is assured,
unless frost nips it.
The Cheyenne Sioux took out from
Pierre last week fifty new wagons and
100 sets Of harness.
An effort is being made to induce Gov.
Church to locate the encampment OF D.
N. G., at Huron. Ii will be held in Sep
TENDER.
The %postoffioes at Lowville, Faulk
county, Ransom, Sargent county, and
Todd. CLARK county, have been discon-
tinued.
Ii is said, OF good authority. that the
O. q N. w. will Don build q new round
house and shops at Huron, the present
facilities being insufficient.
Miner county will vote on the prohi-
bition question this fall. is having more
than the required number Of votes be-
fore the county commissioners.
The first kiln OF brick burned at the
new yard at Brookings wac opened last
week, and seems to be entirely salts
factory to the and patrons.
A SOC OF FL. P. Peterson, Of Bookings,
who was walking in front OF q mover
looking for distractions, was run into
and in consequence lost one of his feet.
A three year old boy of Frank r.
Aikens, Of Canton, member of the last
Dakota legislature, fell into a tub Of
boiling hot water Thursday and died in
q few hours.
Miner county farmers are on the
Jump, harvest is In full blast, and the
crops are reported much better than
was expected. The straw is short but
the heads are long and,full.
A butcher wac robbed of $3.50 at the
Commercial house in Mitchell Thurs
day. He roomed with some strangers
and awakening in the morning found
his pockets had been rihed.
Nh. Nearso, who lives about Eve miles
south of Harold, has q three acre patch
OF peat which he says burns as we'll as
coal. ALI that it needs is to be dug out
and dried and it is ready to burn.
Steps are being taken to suppress the
sensational and slanderous dispatches
which havs been sent from Pierre
during the last two years to the leading
dailies of st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Chicago.
Only about one-third of the small
grain remain to be harvested in Lincoln
county. The yield is excellent. With
the largest yield and the largest acreage
ever known in the county, the gratifoa.
ton is general. (
The petition for an election on local
option was presented 80 the county
commissioners OF Hughes county last
week with $50 signatures. TIE official
comparison with last years poll books
has not been made, but the friends of
the measure claim they have at least
forty to spare.
The contract for the completion Of the
grading Of the Doland extension of the
Chicago & Northwestern to Groton has
been let. Whether it will be built from
the latter place to Ordway, Columbia or
farther to the west and strike Tower
City, en- the Northern Pacific, is a
matter Of speculation.
Jacob Schaetzl, q large stookholder
in the Sioux Falls brewing company,
last week asked of the district court that
o receiver be appointed for that COM
pany ON the groGnds Of fraudulent
management by ITS officers. Moritz
Levinger is president and M. Kaufman
IS secretary and treasurer. The hearing
will be held on the 30th.
Hn.en county has in roand numbers
$4,000 horses, 10000 cattle and 1000
swine, besides o nice sprinkling of mules
and sheep Two years sgo mary Of
tie hogs died OF disease; last year the
crop was short but the assessors returns
reveal tbs fact that the lumber has in
creased very rapidly. Union county
ought to spare 200 cars this fall and
winter.
The semi-monthiy c~lean-up pf the
various quartz mills ia the Black Hills
was made Thursday and the bullion sent
east. The cleanup was a triAs above
the usual average, being a little in
excess Of 100000. Regular shipments
of base bullion from the Iron hill are
now being made. ageregating from
$40 600 to $4,000 in value. The ,Dayy
smelter at Galena also is now turning
out bullion regularly and will soon